Wayback Machine

Quality:

Wayback Machine - digital archive founded by the Internet Archive. This website is the 85^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 494^th most popular website in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Wayback Machine” in Italian Wikipedia has 37.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 41 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Italian) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 494^th most popular in websites in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 85^th most popular in websites.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5155^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8912^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Wayback Machine” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (8912^th place).

Since the creation of article “Wayback Machine”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 1519 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wayback Machine is on the 494^th place in local ranking of websites in Italian Wikipedia and on the 85^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 109 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 4157016 times in all languages (12^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #9003 in January 2020
• Global: #558 in October 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #41905 in April 2024
• Global: #1562 in October 2024

There are 48 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		89.8838
2	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		73.0702
3	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		61.0792
4	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		58.7388
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Wayback Machine		47.8534
6	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		45.9085
7	Min Nan (zhminnan) Wayback Machine		40.2772
8	Italian (it) Wayback Machine		37.8075
9	Malay (ms) Wayback Machine		37.2719
10	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		36.8735

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		13 665 571
2	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		1 507 787
3	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		1 394 318
4	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		853 275
5	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		763 989
6	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		724 109
7	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		576 344
8	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		247 755
9	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		237 514
10	Portuguese (pt) Wayback Machine		197 630

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		87 150
2	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		13 691
3	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		8 159
4	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		5 070
5	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		3 870
6	Vietnamese (vi) Wayback Machine		3 128
7	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		2 965
8	Simple English (simple) Wayback Machine		2 330
9	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		1 974
10	Persian (fa) وی‌بک ماشین		1 973

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		755
2	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		60
3	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		55
4	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		53
5	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		52
6	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		51
7	French (fr) Wayback Machine		31
8	Portuguese (pt) Wayback Machine		31
9	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		30
10	Thai (th) เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน		29

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		13
2	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		2
3	Catalan (ca) Wayback Machine		1
4	Esperanto (eo) Wayback Machine		1
5	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		1
6	Basque (eu) Wayback Machine		1
7	Croatian (hr) Wayback Machine		1
8	Italian (it) Wayback Machine		1
9	Romanian (ro) Wayback Machine		1
10	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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